Reply #234: Baypoint Schools website--Links with ICARE, IAF and ACORN! [View All]

[Carolab]

http://www.baypointschools.com/Computer%20Lab.htm

Does this lab look "complete" to you? And why are the faces photoshopped?

Can anyone blow an image up and read where the equipment came from?

HERE'S SOMETHING INSIDIOUS FOR Y'ALL:

Baypoint Schools was started as ICARE by a Dr. Cole in 1995. LOOK how its funding has grown since then!!

http://www.baypointschools.com/general.html

Bay Point Schools, Inc. is an alternative boarding school that provides educational/vocational and therapeutic services to moderate-risk adolescent boys. It was founded in 1995, as ICARE Bay Point Schools, Inc., on a former missile base that once housed volunteers and materials for the rehabilitation of the homes destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. With the rehabilitation of family homes completed Dr. Cole, the founder, contracted with the Department of Juvenile Justice, to establish ICARE as a school to rehabilitate the lives of 36 troubled boys. In 1995, Bay Point Schools, Inc. was established as a pilot boarding school for 13 to 18 year old, juvenile delinquents, based on a theory that these boys are not mentally ill, sick, or born bad. In place of a treatment model, education, behavior modification and moral development are emphasized in a new innovative boarding school approach based on the sociological model. Five years later, Bay Points budget has grown from $986,000 to $5.2 million and from 36 to 175 troubled youths. In 1998, it was rated, by the Juvenile Justice Accountability Board, as the best commitment program of its kind in the state of Florida.

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Read the information BELOW about ICARE and its links to extremist faith-based programs AND to Jeb Bush!

http://www.missionsun.net/tcaoct2003.htm
ICARE, the Interchurch Coalition for Action Reconciliation and Empowerment, according to their recent publication, is “a 501© (3) non-profit organization currently composed of 35 active African-American and White member congregations and parishes from 12 denominations and Jacksonville’s different neighborhoods and economic backgrounds.” Founded in 1996 by pastors and lay leaders it operates with a budget of $186,000. Listed among its “Denominational and Foundation Supporters” is the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. (CCHD). This November, as in all other years, parish collection baskets will be passed for the CCHD collection. Perhaps it is wise to see just where Catholic dollars are going.

A small sidebar in ICARE’s booklet raises an immediate red flag to those who are aware of the troubling issues of the CCHD. ICARE is affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) an insidious, sinister organization infiltrating churches to obtain monies to carry out radical changes in society and politics, changes that are anathema to the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Catholics need to be aware that in supporting ICARE by way of the CCHD collection they could be funding, among other unsavory things, abortion. IAF research-author Stephanie Block presents a penetrating expose of CCHD and it’s IAF connections.

Shooting Yourself

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development by Stephanie Block.

The Catholic Church is one institution in contemporary society, perhaps the only one, that has consistently decried the evil of abortion at all stages and by all methods. Yet in the United States, it promotes a charity that puts large sums of money into the hands of those who serve the culture of death. It takes a certain degree of sophistication to follow this donated money along its various circuitous routes, but failure to do so is deadly.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development - aided and abetted by glitzy ad campaigns and appealing slogans - spends million of dollars annually on organizations that have death at the end of the trail. Do you know how your CCHD donations are spent?

CCHD’s Annual Reports show that well over one third of the national CCHD grants awarded go to Alinsky-style networks of community organizations. (Saul Alinsky, a radical social engineer, founded the IAF in 1940.) The largest and most generously funded of these networks are the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Pacific Institute for Community Organizing (PICO), Direct Action and Research Training Institute (DART), Gamaliel and ACORN. Alinsky-style community organizations do not provide direct services to relieve the suffering of the poor nor do they provide economic development grants for the poor. Rather, they organize institutions, particularly faith-based communities like churches to fight for political power.

Weaving Abortion into the package Chicago’s IAF’s "Metropolitan Megacreature"

Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) affiliation received organizational assistance of amazing magnitude on March 16, 1995. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of the Archdiocese of Chicago and other sponsoring churches from the city's mainstream denominations held a news conference at which they announced that they would be paying $2.6 million over the following six years to organize Chicago churches. What was being organized? The US Catholic provides a pretty good description of the Chicago IAF: United Power. First of all, it is enormous —340 congregations and organizations from the entire Chicago metropolitan area, which claims a population of 7.5 million and initial pledges of almost $3 million.

Second, it includes in addition to churches, synagogues, Muslim mosques, and Buddhist temples-a vast, growing enrollment of secular entities: labor unions, hospitals and health networks, civic coalitions, and professional groups. As a result United Power should be regarded as “a broad-based citizens’ organization” rather than a strictly congregation-based one. United Power is trying to draw on both the faith tradition in the churches and the democratic tradition in unions and associations.

Only months later, after dialogue and consultation within all sectors of its map, did the organization announce two major initiatives: obtaining health coverage for the uninsured and making home ownership more available Some fear the titanic size of this new creature will make it unwieldy, if not impossible to steer.

IAF’s promoters however, feel the standard size community organization must give way to something grander and more potent. City and suburban dwellers must now understand and acknowledge their interdependency. Organizations working just for the poor or minorities will not succeed because there’s no such thing as a single issue or a small social problem. Great power must be confronted with great power, they say.

A large percentage of the “seed money” to build the Chicago IAF, $1 million, came from the Archdiocese of Chicago. CCHD money came into play later, to support the expansion of this mega-creature. It also funds some of the subsidiary organizations within the larger IAF coalition. These CCHD-funded organizations then pay dues to the Chicago IAF affiliate. It’s quite an arrangement….

The Deadly Dozen, Politics Above All

Another CCHD funded network is ACORN, which generally takes 5-6% of the national CCHD annual budget. It's one of the most flagrantly political among CCHD's grantees, having formed a political party, the New Party, in a political alliance with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), among others. There's no secret about ACORN's political activism…. The New Party is pro-abortion. It's website links to such "friends" as the Abortion Rights Activist Home Page, NARAL (National Abortion and Reproduction Rights Action League), and NOW (National Organization for Women). ACORN is also pro-abortion.

ICARE – Identical goals?...(TCA)

With ICARE’s frank admission of membership in the Alinsky-styled organizations, it is no surprise to find them agitating for the same IAF’s goals: Health Care for the uninsured, Education for teacher training to learn behavior management, Parents Organized for Power, “for greater involvement in local school affairs,” etc. But aren’t these worthy goals? They may or may not be.

Researcher Block points out the “ethics” Saul Alinsky proposed to his community organizers are “straight from hell.” “A few examples from Alinsky’s writing make that clear: The third rule of the ethics of means and ends is that...the end justifies almost any means.. The tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”

“All participants in the IAF national training programs are given a reprint of a 1933 article by John H. Randall, Jr. titled “the Importance of Being Unprincipled.” The theme is to be effective in politics one has to learn to be “unprincipled enough to compromise in order to see their principles succeed.”

ICARE facilitators have learned their lessons well. The local FL Times Union, (4/27/01) states ICARE talks tough to improve city life. “The top brass for Duval County schools dislikes its tactics. The mayor’s former chief of staff says it was the most tenacious community organization she’d ever dealt with” In 1997, when Mayor John Delaney didn’t show up for an ICARE meeting, officials notified the news media.

What are IAF affiliates doing around the country? Block answers that question: Education reform that creates government control over all facets of a citizen’s life; Health care that is linked to Planned Parenthood and other contraception providers; Citizen participation bringing diversity together.

Why is the IAF targeting churches for its organizing efforts? One of the largest reservoirs of untapped power is the institution of the parish and congregation. Religious institutions form the center of the organization. They have the people, the values and the money. (IAF pub.)

The network of politics, power grabs and self-interests makes it painful to accept that we Catholics are as much – if not more- to blame for our aborting country than our pro-abortion neighbors. We know. We have the Church’s teaching, with its constant reminder that human life is sacred.

This year when the collection plate comes around, remember that you can sabotage Church teaching with a flick of your wrist. You can shoot it down by paying for organizations to fight for health clinics that dispense contraceptives and make abortion referrals. You can shoot it down by paying for organizing that supports pro-abortion politicians. You can shoot it down by paying for organizing that trains Catholics to dissent. Just don’t be surprised by the blood on your hands.

A Network of Success

There are more than 160 coalitions like ICARE around the nation. They belong to one of four main organizaing networks.

The industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago. (IAF) - 53 affiliate coalitions
The Gamaliel Foundation - 50 coalitions.
The Pacific Institute for Community Organization - 40 coalitions.
The Direct Action and Research Training Center in Miami (DART) - 19 coalitions.
source: ICARE Jacksonville, FL brochure 7/03.

ST. AUGUSTINE DIOCESAN CHURCHES SUPPORTING ICARE
Christ the King Catholic Church
Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish
Resurrection Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Matthews Catholic Parish
St. Pius Catholic Parish

Catholics serving on ICARE Board of Directors:
Pat Corbe – St. Matthews Co-treasurer
Lathrop Murray – St. Matthews Member
Vickie Turner – Sacred Heart Member

Corporate Contributors
St. Vincent’s Medical Center

Denominational Supporters
The Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Block’s full article, How To Shoot Yourself – One of the Most Potent Weapons Serving the Culture of Death Lies in the Pockets of Good Catholics may be found at Catholic Media Coalition.

The Troubling Business of Fading Away
Terri Schiavo may rightly be called the woman they want to make disappear. Instead, the 39 year-old disabled woman has become a cause celebre. What has made this possible is the mighty weight of two diametrically opposing forces, the tenacious, unyielding love of a family for a daughter, a sister, and the determined, ferocious pursuit of an estranged husband toward his own utilitarian ends.

The Schindler family, probably without realizing it, so caught up are they in preserving Terri’s life, are the personification of sacrificial love in an intact family that comprehends the dignity of life, while husband Michael, attorney George Felos and Judge Greer are inextricably linked to the sinister bonds of the culture of death. At least Felos, a notable right-to-die advocate, recognizes that fact. Schiavo, a man emotionally, physically and morally “divorced” from his wife, just asks “When is that bitch going to die?” (as quoted from the sworn testimony of R.N. Carla Iyer)

For Catholic pro-lifers, (in actuality no other type of Catholic is Catholic) Terri’s case is arguably the Roe vs Wade of the euthanasia movement. While Schindler vs Schiavo did not move to the U.S. Supreme Court, as it matriculates through the Florida courts it in being tried in the media, on the Internet and in the highly charged swirl of public opinion.

The fabricated notion that a “right to privacy” was found in the Constitution upon which abortion on demand was predicated, bears a striking resemblance to the hinge upon which Felos has hung his case, that Terri once told her husband she didn’t want to live sustained by artificial means.

Hearsay evidence of a 26-year-old woman, belatedly expressed, (only after a substantial malpractice monetary award) by a surrogate/guardian husband who denies his wife any rehabilitative measures, is now used as “privacy rights” to kill her. The talons of the death-culture that rake the baby from the womb now sever the disabled from their tenuous grasp on life in the name of privacy.

Danger ahead for the shuffleboard set

When imperceptible blindness hangs over a people, sometimes a bizarre event occurs that puts matters in a new light. The Schiavo drama is taking place in Tampa, Florida courtrooms, just across the bay from St. Petersburg, a city once characterized as the home of the “shuffle-board set,” nomenclature for so many elderly, transplanted senior citizens that trade snow for sand on Florida’s sunny shores.

Just such an event took place recently. St. Petersburg‘s citizenry were shocked to read in local papers that the alternative metal band, Hell on Earth, is planning an on stage suicide of a terminally ill fan to take place on October 4th. The purpose is to “raise awareness for dying with dignity.” The fan wishes to put an end to “back alley suicides.”

Apparently, this is not a hoax; Fox news anchor Rita Cosby carried the story twice on national television. In Florida, it is a second-degree felony to assist a suicide. Lead singer, Billy Tourtelot, who is a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide, claims he’s not “assisting.” “This is about standing up for what you believe in...What I’m doing may be immoral, but it’s not illegal,” says Billy. St. Petersburg’s State Theater as well as another club have denied the band a venue. Tourtelot, nevertheless insists the show will go on. The St. Petersburg police are on the alert. Physician-assisted suicide is euthanasia. Euthanasia is illegal. Tell that to Felos who asserted on national TV, “We’re just carrying out Terri wishes,” —by starving her to death. How many elderly people with impatient relatives will become instantly vulnerable once Tourtelot and Felos’ macabre ideology becomes sacrosanct law? Tried in the media

If anyone doubts Florida is not the test state for making physician-assisted suicide legal and court-assisted euthanasia de rigeuer, he only needs to read Mary Jo Melone’s columns in the St. Petersburg Times.

Melone’s Sept. 25th column, Let Schiavo fade away blithely claims, “There is nothing unusual about denying medical treatment to the terminally ill who don’t want their lives prolonged. Withholding food and water is one way to accommodate them. Nor is there anything unusual about removing a feeding tube once doctors and families have decided that the patient isn’t going to get better. Tube removals happen about once a month at Tampa’s LifePath Hospice and Palliative Care…”

Mrs Schiavo, however, is not terminally ill and most people would refuse an accommodation to die by the method of starvation/dehydration. As Terri’s attorney Pat Anderson cryptically remarked, “Florida is no state to get sick in!”

Melone regularly quotes Dr. Robert Walker who teaches ethics at the University of South Florida. Walker agrees with the court’s decision and claims Terri would not suffer if her feeding tube is removed. “ She cannot perceive thirst or hunger. She doesn‘t have the brain structures necessary for that kind of perception, ” claims Walker. Melone regularly baits Catholics, pro-lifers, conservatives and the religious right. She cannot hold back her glee over the prospect of Atty. General Charlie Crist entering the case.

And when it comes to bad taste, Tampa Bay Online comes out on top for putting a poll on its Internet web site asking people to vote whether or not to remove Terri’s feeding tube! On Sept. 29, the St. Petersburg Times followed suit.

A columnist who openly advocates euthanasia, a physician/professor who lacks sensitivity and compassion and accuracy, a rock band leader who would turn a profit out of someone’s tragic circumstances, is this typical of Florida’s St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay? Three years ago, by order of the Roman Catholic bishop of the St. Petersburg Diocese, Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was severely curtailed. Is it any wonder the “Gold Coast” has degenerated to this base level and the howls of hell are heard in the city.

TIME LINE

Aug. 26, 2002 Gov. Jeb Bush sends letter to Judge George Greer asking a guardian ad litem be appointed for Terri. Greer dismisses Bush’s letter.

Aug. 27: Florida Bishops issue statement.

Aug. 30: 24 pg. complaint filed with Federal Judge Richard A. Lazzara naming Schiavo, Morton Plant Hospital, FL Sun Coast Hospice and Attorney Felos as a non party co –conspirator in the denial of Terri Schiavo’s Constitutional rights. (5th and 14th.)

Sept: 2: Lazzara declines to intervene and grants additional time to file an amended case.

Sep. 11: Judge George Greer refuses Felos’ request that Terri’s starvation death begin at 5:00 p.m.

Sep. 17: Judge Greer faxes Pat Anderson, atty., the date for Terri’s death to begin: Wednesday, Sept. 15th, at 2:00 p.m. (The Feast of Teresa of Jesus).

Sept. 22: Verified amended complaint naming Michael Schiavo and his agents as defendants filed with Federal court regarding FL’s Chapter 765.

Sept. 23: FL Attorney General, Charles Crist, invited into the case by Judge Lazzara.

Oct. 6: Defendant has until Oct. 6 to reply, the plaintiff has until Oct. 8 to reply.

Oct. 10: A hearing will be conducted at 1:30 p.m., in the Tampa , FL U. S. courthouse. Further notes: State Atty. Gen. Crist cannot concede that a statute is unconstitutional. Therefore, entering the case could mean that Crist would be on the side of Michael Schiavo. The AG can, however, choose not to defend a statute. Over 56 organizations have registered in support of Terri Schiavo’s right to life. Emails in support of Terri to Gov. exceed 39,458.